Evans' Graduation

 The day had finally arrived - Evan, (our oldest grandson) was graduating from Eagle Crest High School in a class of 760 students!  Now THAT'S a LOT, considering when I graduated we had a class of 42!

The day was sunny and clear!  Jessi and I got an egg and ham casserole put together and in the oven for a quick brunch around 10:30!  Gale and Kris arrived for the brunch and afterwards, the first bunch left to get Evan there by 11:30 and to save seats.  Evan, Jessi, Reese, Gwyn and I were in the first load and headed out to Denver University where the graduation was - traffic was awful and it just got worse as we got close to the campus!  But luckily there was still room in the parking garage for us and the graduation venue was just across the street!

We took a few pics outside and then Evan headed in!  We decided we better go stand in line as the doors didn't open till noon but we only had to wait about 1/2 hour - in the meantime, the rest of the family was driving around trying to find a parking spot and about the time we headed into the venue, they also arrived!  We had great seats (all planned out as Evan knew he was in the front row which made it AMAZING for us to see him)

The place was packed as you can tell - WOW - each student had 10 tickets for their families!

The entire ceremony only took about 2 hours!  Between the 4 divisions, there were 4 different people calling out names so it actually went pretty fast!  Jill was at school that day but she tuned into the online coverage and got to snap several pictures from the big screen for us since we were still aways away!

Funny enough, Evan was on the BIG screen several times since he was in the front row!  But it was usually too late to grab your phone for a picture by the time we would see it - but it was fun watching for him!

Immediate family and grandparents were so proud to watch Evan walk up and get his diploma!  Many cords decorated his gown for all of his hard work over his high school years!

Afterwards we found a nice spot to take pictures!

You can imagine the traffic getting out of there!!  But we finally made it and stopped at the BBQ place to pick up the catered meal - it was delicious!!  

A fun picture of Jessi and I outside after it was all done!

Seeing as how Evan's graduation landed on Glenn's birthday, Jessi got him a piece of his favorite cake, German Chocolate!  And we all sang Happy Birthday!

We played a few games after our dinner and I believe we all collapsed after our extremely busy but wonderful day!